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Director
Hugo Ramirez
Client
Fnac
Agency
Marcel
Hugo Ramirez was chosen to create the beautiful advertising campaign for the FNAC « J’ai fais la FNAC.» (I learnt in life school) In three parts for three artists each representing an area of popular culture: music, photography and comics. The French rapper Nekfeu, the photographer Stéphane Lavoué and the cartoonist Christophe Blain were chosen to play the films. For each of them, Hugo will make a film with a radically different graphic treatment. For Nekfeu, Hugo has completely designed the visual part and made a resolutely singular film with a more experimental technical approach. He developed a rich neon world for the film that celebrates french rapper Nekfeu’s discovery of literature, music and art. This film is built on a principle of mixtures of techniques. Hugo shot live action footages in a FNAC store with an actor, used recovered shots, 3D animation and traditional animation performed at the studio to create a hybrid sequence whose cement would be each related technique in a fluid film, abounding and at a frantic pace. In parallel, a voice-over model has been recorded to set the pace of the story on the images. When this digital sequence was over, Hugo and his team repainted the rough image-by-image animation with watercolor on grain paper to give this unique vibrant rendering to the film. The final result is a striking spectacle of colour that marries a distinctive street style with literature from war & peace to white fang. The colors are the original hues of the painting. Then the real artist Nekfeu voice was recorded in a studio session.
Making-of
Credits | |
Client | Fnac |
Guest | Nekfeu |
Agency | Marcel |
TV Producer | Elodie Jonquille |
Production Company | TROUBLEMAKERS |
Director | Hugo Ramirez |
Production Company | Eddy |
Executive Producer | Jean-François Bourrel |
Production Assistant | Céline Da Cunha-Vanlint |
Animation Studio | Brunch Studio |
Post-producer | Vincent Leroy |
Post-producer | Julie Bellemare |
Illustrations & design | Hugo Ramirez |
Editing | Juliette Délestaing |
Storyboard | Hugo Ramirez, Alexandre Édeline, Corentin Penloup |
2D animation | Martin Richard |
Watercolour animators | Johanna Huck, Luc Journot, Luca Valente |
Lead compositing | David Sapyyapy |
3D modeling | Nicolas Rrivoire |
Original soundtrack by | UGLY MAC BEER |